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[Page 63]
TO CAPTAIN ****
1 O Thou! unaw'd by principle or pow'r,
2 Behold and tremble for the fated hour,
3 When nature calls thy heedless soul away,
4 To leave its better part, thy wretched clay.
5 Do you e'er peace or satisfaction find;
6 Does not your pleasures leave sting behind?
7 How short's life's joy, how fleeting is our breath;
8 Reflect one moment on the hour of death!
9 Behold thy spirit ready to depart,
10 What tortures then shall pierce your harden'd heart!
11 How many guiltless souls, by you destroy'd,
12 As instruments of pain, shall be employed?
13 Your troubl'd conscience will abhor the light,
14 Yet terror shall perplex you all the night.
15 Reflect on this, and turn your eyes to Heav'n;
16 There still is mercy — you may be forgiv'n.
[Page 64]17 In asking pardon, now employ that tongue
18 Which once deceiv'd the ignorant and young.
19 I've heard, O dreadful! children you betray,
20 And dim the radiance of their rising day.
21 But if you heaven and earth will still disdain,
22 And this last timely warning prove in vain,
23 I fear some hand will quickly be employ'd,
24 And you'll, like other monsters, be destroyed:
25 But if you live till nature play its part,
26 Then doubly doubly shall you feel the smart.
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Author: Rebekah Carmichael (later Hay)
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Carmichael, Miss (Rebekah) (fl. 1790-1806). Poems. Edinburgh: Peter Hill, 1790, pp. 63-64. 92p. (ESTC T104666) (Page images digitized from a copy at University of California Libraries — third-party rights apply.)
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- THE ILL-FATED LOVER ()
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- A NIGHT SCENE ()
- ON A LADY ()
- ON A LATE DISTURBANCE IN THE THEATRE ()
- ON A REAL INSTANCE OF DISINTERESTED FRIENDSHIP ()
- ON A YOUNG GENTLEMAN's RETURN FROM JAMAICA ()
- ON A YOUNG LADY ()
- ON A YOUNG LADY, WHO ASKED A NECKLACE OF A GENTLEMAN's HAIR, AND WAS REFUSED ()
- ON MR ****** ()
- ON MR ****** ACTOR ()
- ON RECEIVING A POT OF THYME ()
- ON THE AUTHOR'S BIRTH-DAY ()
- ON THE BIRTH-DAY OF A YOUNG GENTLEMAN IN THE EAST INDIES ()
- ON THE FATE OF CAPTAIN G***** ()
- ON THE ST BERNARD'S CANARY BIRDS ()
- ON THE STUMP OF AN OLD TREE ()
- ON THE SUDDEN DEATH OF A YOUNG GENTLEMAN ()
- A REQUEST ()
- A ROMANTIC SCENE Which happened in the year 1746. ()
- A SONG ()
- A SONG ()
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- THE STAR OF EDEN VALE ()
- THE STRUGGLE ()
- A TALE ()
- TO MR ***** ()
- THE TOOTH ()
- THE TWA DOWS ()
- THE VILLAIN's SOLILOQUY ()
- WORDS OF COURSE ()
- WRITTEN IN THE HERMITAGE AT BRAID ()
- WRITTEN IN THE HERMITAGE OF BRAID ()
- A YOUNG LASS's SOLILOQUY ()